Word: ahram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illiterate Middle East, radio propaganda is Nasser's strongest single weapon. If he himself is no Hitler, he has a palace full of little Goebbelses. His controlled press freely advocates assassination, as did Cairo's Al Ahram last week: "Chamoun will have no better fate than that of Nuri asSaid or any other traitor who betrayed his country." And Nasser's Damascus radio shamelessly spread the lie early last week that Lebanese rebels had killed ten U.S. marines...
...Cairo, Gamal Nasser's propagandists screeched their loudest at Jordan's embattled King Hussein. HUSSEIN SMUGGLES WEALTH TO SWITZERLAND, cried one headline. "How does King Hussein rule?" asked the newspaper Al Ahram. "Through prisons, guillotines, tanks and U.S. dollars." Radio Cairo's "Voice of the Arabs" called repeatedly for "death to the traitors who rule Jordan," put on a soap opera depicting a Hussein pursued by a fortuneteller croaking that his people will avenge his treasonous friendship with...
...that day the inflammatory Cairo press fanned up its own version. "Troops of the UNEF opened fire on Moushref when he emerged from a seething crowd and tried to put the Egyptian flag in place of the U.N. flag on the UNEF headquarters," said the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. "He was hit in the back and fell in a pool of blood while still holding the Egyptian flag in his hand." Thereupon, because the forces of the U.N. had fired "at civilian inhabitants," Nasser announced that Egypt would "assume its responsibilities in the strip immediately." He appointed Major...
...nation Assembly, in which 27 Asian-African votes can block any decisive action, justice is a sometime thing. After canvassing lobby opinion in the U.N.'s glass-walled conference building for two days (WEST PLOTTING BEHIND-SCENES CONSPIRACY, headlined Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram), the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge drafted two compromise resolutions. One repeated for the sixth time the Assembly's demand for Israeli withdrawal. The other called vaguely for "the placing of the UNEF on the Egyptian-Israeli armistice demarcation line...
...cutback in public spending. Nasser's need for the canal revenues is the best weapon the rest of the world has against his attempts to haggle too long over a Suez political settlement. At week's end, in the usual Egyptian style, the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram announced that Egypt would negotiate with Britain and France only if new governments took over in those countries and apologized to Egypt for their predecessors' misdeeds...